Caustic Loyalty
I like the company i work for.
Having made that statement, i know a lot of my friends are hiring popular goons of renowned skills to beat me up and my roomates are probably making plans of what type of poison to employ to see to it that i discontinue making such statements( or any other statement) ever again. But i categorically state ….I like the company i work for.
I like it for the fact that it has no pretences. The company i work for is a mediocre company. It hires mediocre ppl all of who do mediocre things to achieve mediocre targets and get paid mediocre salaries. Medeocrity is a way of life and no pretences are made to hide it. Every day, every breathing hour, it is made sure that you realise theat you are essentially, a mediocre person, who has no other option probably and you’re not gettin a break anywhere else and thus, you’re still here.It is painful at first but that is what the company i work for teaches you. It tells you gently " Sweetheart there is so so much shit in the world that you’ll never run short of it. Just when you think enough shit has been thrown in your face fear no more for lo and behold! a little more shit will be hurled in your face be sure of that !!!" And for this wisdom and learning I have to say I like the company i work for.
I have used the cliche "Necessity is the mother of invention" often but the company i work for has taught me that Necessity has , in fact, mothered many other offspring as well like motivation, drive and the ability to realise that your self respect is being smashed slowly and meticulisly in tiny itty bitty pieces and and you better do something to get out of that:) It has driven me to desperately grope, to find other avenues just to escape this. Because it is not a good feeling to be reminded, every breathing hour, that you are in fact a mediocre person, who has no other option probably and you’re not gettin a break anywhere else and thus, you’re still here. And for this motivation and this drive I like the company i work for.
And the best of all is of course,maximizin memory. I remember my brother and I used to laugh out loud at these advertistments on "Tele shoppin network" for products quite plainly named "Memory power" where this dude helped you to remember everyday things like numbers and ppls names and birthdays n stuff. Ajay my man, the company i work for is a memory power tool in itself!!! By chance, just by chance, the statistical probability of wehich is even lower than that of George Bush growing a brain( yup, that low!), if one day you forget you’re unhappy and cheerully board the buses to office, the trasport kicks right into action to use their own version of "Memory Power" of reminding you that you are just one in a huge humoungous crowd and you really dont matter frankly. And that my friend is something the "HArry somebody’s Memory Power tool" will never achieve!!! The buses are jam packed to say the least. Ppl usually use the phrases "part of the crowd" or "rat race" casually but the company i work for illustrates this to you on a daily regular basis. The scurryng and pushing and shoving done to get a place in the bus is nothin short of being a hindi block buster movie. it has action, comedy, drama all in varying and potent proportions!!I think Karan johar has his next movie "BUS .. aur nahi!!!" based on the company buses starring SRK playin an employee who is dying of head concussions due to regualr bumps rendereed by the rather violently moving bus who falls in love with the girl who is standing so close to him everyday (owing purely to the crowd of course) that she has to be peeled off him at the end of the journey each day played by none other than Preity. You’ll see this short, fat , dark girl in the movie in the bus as one of the extras. yup thats me! i’m the one with the plastered hand and bandaged head( last friday man! too much traffic and i hit the dashboard). Believe be no other company gives you a chance to be up close and personal( literally for i know intimate details of what brand of garments they wear, what perfume they use,any boils or contrusions on any part of their body and even what they had for breakfast:)) with so many ppl you dont even know to an extent that you see the whole company as a fraternity. And for this brotherhood, this closeness I like the company i work for.
Of course there are a few things that are deterents to my "liking " for this collosal name. For instance I have met abs amazing ppl here who’re smart, sweet and have done nothin to deserve this:)These are gonna be ppl i’ll miss later in life and i know i’ll cherish them and all the times we’ve had. And sometimes i think it dilutes my "liking". I mean , i hate conflicting feelins. Moreover, I know this is Bangalore and there are a lot of ppl out there with no food and n shelter coz they dont have a job and beleive me I’m not denying that I’m fortunate on that count. But its just that… for those of you who have watched the move " the pursuit of happiness" u’d kknow this…,everytime i did well in some paper or any of my profs told me i was doing a good job in college i alwys thought that was a precursor to a great career. That i was meant to do great work. And when within a year of passing out of college all of those misconception( as i now call them , the cynic that i am) come shattering down it hurts and it hurts bad. thats it. but at he end of it all, for all this and all that i am yet to see…. i have to say…. i like " the company i work for"
P.S. It is a four letter word( very apt i must sy) and it rhymes with Bata
